Comments on: Essential Free Software http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/2008/01/09/194/ Vegan Nomad Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:32:41 +0900 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joe http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/2008/01/09/194/comment-page-1/#comment-4787 Joe Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:20:09 +0000 http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/09/194/#comment-4787 What can you tell me about DVD43 What can you tell me about DVD43

]]> By: barnz2k http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/2008/01/09/194/comment-page-1/#comment-100 barnz2k Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:50:20 +0000 http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/09/194/#comment-100 <blockquote><p>Will look to add Parted Image, PDF Printer, 7-zip</p> <p>I like Foxit for PDF read and sticking with it.</p> <p>KMPlayer pwns <img src="http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley"> I’m not a fan of VLC</p> <p>RUFF: I mentioned in the disclaimer at top there are some pay-software options. But I did forget to add a good open source version (7-zip) at the top first. Will do so as well.</p> </blockquote> Testing the reply to comments on Essential Free Software

Will look to add Parted Image, PDF Printer, 7-zip

I like Foxit for PDF read and sticking with it.

KMPlayer pwns :) I’m not a fan of VLC

RUFF: I mentioned in the disclaimer at top there are some pay-software options. But I did forget to add a good open source version (7-zip) at the top first. Will do so as well.

Testing the reply to comments on Essential Free Software

]]> By: barnz2k http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/2008/01/09/194/comment-page-1/#comment-99 barnz2k Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:53:25 +0000 http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/09/194/#comment-99 Will look to add Parted Image, PDF Printer, 7-zip I like Foxit for PDF read and sticking with it. KMPlayer pwns :) I'm not a fan of VLC RUFF: I mentioned in the disclaimer at top there are some pay-software options. But I did forget to add a good open source version (7-zip) at the top first. Will do so as well. Will look to add Parted Image, PDF Printer, 7-zip

I like Foxit for PDF read and sticking with it.

KMPlayer pwns :) I’m not a fan of VLC

RUFF: I mentioned in the disclaimer at top there are some pay-software options. But I did forget to add a good open source version (7-zip) at the top first. Will do so as well.

]]> By: ruff http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/2008/01/09/194/comment-page-1/#comment-98 ruff Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:09:40 +0000 http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/09/194/#comment-98 Why put a shareware program as free? Winrar is NOT free. There's a heap of shareware out there that's useful, but you haven't put that up as "essential free software.." Why put a shareware program as free? Winrar is NOT free. There’s a heap of shareware out there that’s useful, but you haven’t put that up as “essential free software..”

]]> By: stib http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/2008/01/09/194/comment-page-1/#comment-97 stib Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:07:48 +0000 http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/09/194/#comment-97 VLC player, great video player that can play anything, and it's open source http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC player, great video player that can play anything, and it’s open source
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

]]> By: chrisg http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/2008/01/09/194/comment-page-1/#comment-95 chrisg Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:01:47 +0000 http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/09/194/#comment-95 pdf printer (who needs acrobat?) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ cheers, chrisg pdf printer (who needs acrobat?) – http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

cheers,
chrisg

]]> By: stib http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/2008/01/09/194/comment-page-1/#comment-94 stib Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:58:51 +0000 http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/09/194/#comment-94 In the first paragraph I said you can download partimage - I meant you can download parted magic which is the partitioning tool, which comes with partimage http://www.partedmagic.com/ In the first paragraph I said you can download partimage – I meant you can download parted magic which is the partitioning tool, which comes with partimage

http://www.partedmagic.com/

]]> By: stib http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/2008/01/09/194/comment-page-1/#comment-93 stib Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:56:37 +0000 http://www.barnz2k.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/09/194/#comment-93 You said that you couldn't find a free replacement for Acronis. Well there is a Linux tool called Partimage that does the same thing. Obviously you need linux to use it, but if you don't want to install linux or download a full distro you can download Partimage, which is a 30mb liveCD/USB based partitioning tool that comes with partimage (and it can repartition your drives, including resizing current partitions). You boot into the partimage CD or off your USB and then you can make an image of your windows drive, or restore a previously backed up image. It can even split the image into separate volumes to fit on optical media. Another suggestion is windizupdate. It's not software, but a website that lets you update windows without IE. So you can finally slay the IE beast. http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/ PDF reader: sumatra reader. Very small, simple and lightweight _and_ open source: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/ CD burning: CDRFE is a GPL CD burner, and so is infrarecorder. I don't know if you're interested in whether things are open source or not, but I'd always prefer FOSS software to proprietary software, even if both are free. http://demosten.com/cdrfe/ http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/ Oh and if you're after free plugins for final cut pro check out my website http://www.pureandapplied.com.au -stib You said that you couldn’t find a free replacement for Acronis. Well there is a Linux tool called Partimage that does the same thing. Obviously you need linux to use it, but if you don’t want to install linux or download a full distro you can download Partimage, which is a 30mb liveCD/USB based partitioning tool that comes with partimage (and it can repartition your drives, including resizing current partitions). You boot into the partimage CD or off your USB and then you can make an image of your windows drive, or restore a previously backed up image. It can even split the image into separate volumes to fit on optical media.

Another suggestion is windizupdate. It’s not software, but a website that lets you update windows without IE. So you can finally slay the IE beast. http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/

PDF reader: sumatra reader. Very small, simple and lightweight _and_ open source: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

CD burning: CDRFE is a GPL CD burner, and so is infrarecorder. I don’t know if you’re interested in whether things are open source or not, but I’d always prefer FOSS software to proprietary software, even if both are free.
http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/

Oh and if you’re after free plugins for final cut pro check out my website
http://www.pureandapplied.com.au
-stib

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